> More to the point, what are those of you who produce many diagrams > using? What do publishers use or those who submit "camera ready" > diagrams use?
We dont produce *that* many diagrams but during a publication project, professionally we use Adobe software, illustrator for design and indesign for book layout on our macs. I also use a mixture of Blender http://www.blender.org (open source 3D) with a plugin called Freestyle (visit http://www.graphicall.org to get a build with Freestyle suited to your system) to generate 2D vector graphics (.svg files) to import into illustrator. I remember a recent discussion about 3d diagramming on the list, and I didn't get a chance to chime in. This allows me to make accurate diagrams with a variable perspective, and get vector outputs. Blender has some nice array functions for quickly and interactively duplicating objects at set distances, or rotated around a point, which is nice for repetitive elements found in modular origami. In special cases, such as my research or looking at tesselations, I'm using Jun Mitani's Oripa http://mitani.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/oripa/ in combination with Tomohiro Tachi's Rigid Origami Simulator. Sometimes the patterns collapse correctly in ROS, it's a bit hit and miss with the crease pattern input, I once redrew the crease pattern eight times to get it to work, but it did. The latter I run under a virtualised windows system. I've also used Tess (http://www.papermosaics.co.uk/software.html) a few times, but just to check some ideas quickly. But I digress, this last section of software has been around for some time now. best, Matthew
